He Wei's heart froze, and his face was solemn: "Then where is Liu Changle?" ”

"He was imprisoned in the dungeon under the City Lord's Mansion, and General Ben took you to meet him." As he spoke, General Hua got up and led him to the dungeon.

He Wei bowed his hand: "So there is General Lao Hua." ”

Under the dungeon of the City Lord's Mansion, it is dark and damp, all kinds of torture tools are readily available here, and most of the people imprisoned here are people who have committed crimes in Lianyun City, and generally don't want to get out alive as soon as they enter this dungeon.

Liu Changle was imprisoned in the innermost cage, his hands and feet were tied to a wooden stake in a large shape, the old wounds on his body had not healed and new wounds had been added, his head hung weakly, dying, it can be seen how severely he was tortured here.

Without saying a word, General Hua stepped forward and poured a bucket of cold water on him, grabbed his hair and lifted his head up: "Wake up, this is the Dali Temple Qing in the capital, come to investigate your brother's embezzlement of the imperial court's disaster relief money and grain, what are you holding in your heart, it's best to hurry up and explain it to 1510!" ”

Liu Changle was awakened by his words, his godless eyes finally had a hint of reaction, and he raised his eyelids weakly to look at He Wei: "I said, I really don't know where the money and food went......

When He Wei saw his appearance, he felt an inexplicable breath in his heart, and he didn't know that he would fly by himself.

"Who was the person you traded with at the time?" Since he couldn't ask anything, he changed his approach.

Liu Changle seemed to be afraid of being tortured, and his tone of voice was weak: "It's just an ordinary businessman." ”

He Wei raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Ordinary businessmen? Do ordinary businessmen dare to buy imperial grain?! ”

Hearing He Wei's questioning, a trace of weakness flashed in Liu Changshou's eyes, and he was very fast, but he was still captured by He Wei.

He Wei suddenly concluded that the person who traded must not be an ordinary businessman, the flooding that broke out in Fengcheng was known to almost everyone, and the batch of grain and grass allocated by Da Chu was basically known to everyone.

On the premise of knowing that this is disaster relief food, ordinary businessmen would never dare to make this transaction, since that person chose to trade in Lianyun City, he must have seen that the flow of people here is more complicated, and it is definitely not easy to find out something.

Liu Changshou hesitated for a long time, and when he was asked, he just shook his head vigorously and said that he didn't know, He Wei had no choice but to come here temporarily, although he didn't ask anything, but he looked at Liu Changle's appearance, and he had a clue in his heart.

In the capital city of Great Chu, since He Wei personally sent the second batch of grain, it finally alleviated Fengcheng's urgent need at the moment, giving him more time to investigate the matter.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Zhong Quan sat alone in the study, and his plans had to be suspended and shelved due to the recent frequent events, and the people in Fengcheng had not solved the problem, and recently someone visited the Prime Minister's Mansion at night, and the most annoying thing was that his subordinates couldn't even catch a single person, and they were escaped three times and twice.

Zhong Quan didn't have to think about it to know that the person who was the night detective that night must have been sent by Duan Yi, he must have seen the box, in order not to be exposed, he ordered someone to rebuild a secret room to store the box, in case someone found out and stolen it again.

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Finally closed his eyes and called softly.

Dong You pushed open the door and came in, holding a flying pigeon biography and handing it to Zhongquan: "Xiangye, a letter from Liu Changshou of Fengcheng." ”

"Huh?" In the end, he was suspicious, took the note and glanced at it, and only a few words were written on it to describe Liu Changshou's current situation.

Quan only took a cursory glance to understand the current situation, which was a bit complicated, he rubbed the corners of his eyes, and wondered how to deal with it in his heart.

Dongyou seemed to see that something was wrong, and his eyes glanced at the note in his hand: "Xiangye, what happened over there in Fengcheng?" ”

"The case of the loss of the emperor's grain for disaster relief is related to Liu Changshou's own brother, and Changshou sent a letter to ask Benxiang to find a way to help his brother." Speaking of this, he couldn't help frowning, he didn't know how the incident in Fengcheng happened, but he knew that if Liu Changshou didn't have his own order, it would be absolutely impossible to swallow the imperial grain used for disaster relief!

"Is Xiang Ye going to help or not?" Dongyou asked.

Zhongquan was silent for a while, and finally took a pen and wrote a few words on the paper and handed them to Dongyou, instructing: "You send this to that person, and the rest of the true appearance has its own arrangements." ”

Dongyou took the letter, turned around and left.

…………

Another few quiet days passed, and there seemed to be new progress in the investigation on He Wei's side.

He Wei came to the place where Liu Changle traded at that time, the Dongluo Inn, which brought together people from all over the world and was also a place where disputes often occurred.

Liu Changle lived in the Yunzi room of the Dongluo Inn at that time, and now this room was guarded by General Hua and no one was allowed to live in it, until He Wei came, he was not allowed to investigate.

The room basically remained the same as before Liu Changle was arrested, nothing had changed, and He Wei searched by himself and nothing wrong happened.

He fumbled around the room again, and finally found a secret compartment on the side of the bed, which contained some silver tickets and correspondence.

He Wei opened one of the letters and looked at it, and found that they were all ordinary greeting letters, and the silver tickets were only a small amount, and there was nothing special.

He didn't believe in evil and flipped over again, maybe the range of movement was too great, and the protruding dark grid was broken free by him one by one, revealing a round jade pendant engraved with a feather pattern.

Discovery?!

He Wei picked up the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, it was a piece of mutton fat jade, and the pattern engraved on it seemed to be a totem, I don't know what it represented.

No matter what it represented, He Wei faintly felt that this might be related to the loss of imperial grain, so he carefully put it away, put away the letters and silver tickets in the secret compartment, and went back to ponder carefully.

After He Wei left, a person quietly appeared in a corner of the room, and the person sneaked out of the window with a successful smile on the corner of his mouth.

Returning to the Lianyun City Lord's Mansion, He Wei temporarily lived here for the purpose of investigation, after all, there was no place for him to settle in Fengcheng, and it was convenient for him to investigate by living here.

At night, He Wei asked General Hua to drink in his room, and not long after, General Hua came in a regular suit and holding a few jars of wine.

General Hua is burly and tall, and he usually looks tall and mighty in armor, and now he takes off his armor and changes into regular clothes.

"General Hua, come on, come on, sit here."

When He Wei saw General Hua coming, he immediately beckoned him to sit down, he had already prepared good wine and food, but he didn't expect General Hua to bring wine himself.

"Let you taste the characteristics of Lianyun, this is not comparable to holding sake in the capital!" General Hua spoke in a heroic tone, and replaced all the drinks prepared by He Wei with those he brought, he wanted to drink only strong wines, like those tasteless and tasteless like drinking water, he was not interested.

General Hua gave him a glass of wine, and he simply held the jar to drink, He Wei tasted it, and it was sweet in his throat, but soon it would be spicy again, and he coughed when he choked.

"Haha, it's the first time I've been in the capital for a long time with such a strong bar!" General Hua patted him on the back to calm him down, and he poured another sip of wine and exclaimed refreshment.

He Wei's face turned red, and it took a long time to relieve his breath, and he took out the jade pendant found in the Dongluo Inn from his arms and handed it to him.

He Wei asked: "General Hua has seen this jade pendant?" ”

General Hua swallowed a sip of wine and wiped his mouth, took the jade pendant and looked at it, as if it was a little familiar, and looked at it carefully: "This, isn't this my deputy general's personal jade pendant?!" ”

Listening to his words, He Wei's eyes immediately came, and then his words hurriedly asked, "Deputy General Zhang?" Which lieutenant general? ”

General Hua touched his chin: "It is Zhang Dashan, who was just promoted to deputy general by General Ben not long ago, he performed very well on the battlefield and was familiar with the art of war. ”

Speaking of this, he touched the jade pendant again: "But why is the jade pendant of this mountain with you, this is his personal thing, and he usually won't take it out." ”

He Wei narrowed his eyes and said in a shocking voice: "This jade pendant was searched by Xia Guan in Liu Changle's room at the Dongluo Inn!" ”

Hearing this, General Hua glared, and said with some disbelief: "No, General Ben has seen the room before, and he didn't find this jade pendant?" ”

He Wei shook his head, a clue flashed through his mind, and explained: "This was found in a secret compartment on the side of the bed, and it is normal for the general to omit something." ”

General Hua suddenly, his fingers touched the pattern on the jade pendant: "Then Lord He, this is ......" Before he finished speaking, he wanted to hear what he thought.

He Wei lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and then said: "Please don't make a show of it first, and wait for the next official to find an opportunity to test the deputy general tomorrow." ”

General Hua couldn't do it, and he didn't investigate the case, so he had to nod cooperatively, to be honest, he didn't really believe that Zhang Dashan was implicated in the matter again.

Zhang Dashan is a "general star" that he finally discovered, every time before the war, he will have all kinds of unexpected ideas, he has won several battles, General Hua loves talent, especially valued him to promote him to deputy general, how can he have anything to do with the loss of imperial grain?

The two drank until the second half of the night, and talked happily, until noon on the second day, He Wei woke up from drunkenness, and the first thing he woke up was that someone told him that General Hua had taken Vice General Zhang out on patrol, and he was just given a chance.

He Wei asked for directions in advance, and quietly came all the way to the side courtyard where Vice General Zhang lived, there was no one to guard here, He Wei found Vice General Zhang's wing room very smoothly, opened the door and sneaked in.

The decoration in the wing room was very transactional, and there were basically no ornaments, except for a few daggers from his own collection, and long swords and the like were displayed in front of the windowsill.

He Wei flipped through it casually, it was all some useless military books and the like, and the clean ones were a little abnormal.

He looked around again, and saw a brazier under the bed, and although it was autumn and the weather was a little cooler, it was not to the point of using a brazier.

He Wei squatted down and took out the brazier, this year he packed some items that I don't know what was burned into ashes by the fire, and I didn't find anything suspicious.

Years of experience in investigating cases told him that there must be something wrong with this, and he was not afraid of dirty hands to dig in, and sure enough, he took out a half-cut note that had not been burned.

He Wei's eyes froze, and he quickly blew the ash on it clean, and could only vaguely see the few words left on it.

"Help, Liu, ......"

Save Liu Chang? What does it mean, who wrote this letter to Vice Admiral Zhang, and what is the content behind these three words?

He Wei wanted to see it, but the back of the note had been almost burned, and it was not easy to see these three words.

didn't have time to think about anything else, He Wei put away the note, and then cleaned up Deputy General Zhang's wing and restored it to its original state before quietly retreating.